Lin Wang
I got my Ph.D. in meteorology from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2008. After that, I joined the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, where I am currently a professor. During this process, I made approximately three years of international academic visits to the USA, Russia, Japan, Italy, and other places.
My research interests include monsoons, atmospheric and climate dynamics, and climate extremes, with a focus on the extratropics. My primary areas of expertise are the variability, mechanisms, and predictability of the Asian monsoon across intraseasonal to interdecadal timescales. I heavily apply process-based diagnostics on observational, reanalysis, and model data to identify the critical processes that dominate the monsoon and climate variability. I also seek the potential influences of stratospheric processes on monsoon variability and predictability. Currently, I am working on scale interactions, the role of internal climate variability in climate change, and climate extremes.
I have published over 200 articles in refereed scientific journals, such as Science Advances, Nature Communications, Journal of Climate, and Geophysical Research Letters. I serve as the Executive Co-Chief Editor for the Journal of Meteorological Research and Associate Editor for the Journal of Climate and the International Journal of Climatology. I am a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society, the Chair of the Dynamic Meteorology Commission of the Chinese Meteorological Society, a member of the International Commission on Dynamical Meteorology, the Scientific Steering Group of WCRP Lighthouse Activity- My Climate Risk, the Working Group of WCRP Lighthouse Activity- Explaining and Predicting Earth System Change, and the CLIVAR/GEWEX Asian-Australian Monsoon Working Group.
Research Interests
- Asian monsoon
- Climate dynamics
- Climate extremes
- Stratosphere-troposphere interaction
News
- Positions are open for graduate students and postdocs. Contact Lin Wang for details.
- 2025.12：Lin Wang was elected a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society.
- 2025.12：Dr. Kangjie Ma received the Excellent PhD Thesis Award from IAP.
- 2025.11：Welcome to submit to the special issue on the 2025 Asian summer monsoon.
- 2025.08：Dr. Hainan Gong got the prestigious Young Scientist Project (Category B) from the National Science Foundation of China.
- 2025.07：Dr. Weina Guan completed her postdoctoral research and joined Central South University of Forestry and Technology as an Assistant Professor.
- 2025.07：Tian Wan got her Ph.D. and joined the Hunan Branch of China Meteorological Administration Training Centre as an engineer.
- 2025.07：Kangjie Ma got his Ph.D. and joined Lanzhou University as a postdoc researcher.
- 2025.07：Huanhuan Ran got her Ph.D. and joined the China Meteorological Administration Training Centre as an engineer.
- 2025.06：Kangjie Ma was awarded the Outstanding Graduate of Beijing Municipality.
- 2025.04: Lin Wang was included in the Highly Cited Chinese Researcher in 2024 by Elsevier.
- 2025.03: Our new paper on the Arctic-Eurasian climate linkage was published in Science Advances.
- 2025.02: Prof. Thomas Spengler visited the group.
- 2025.01: Lin Wang was appointed as the Co-Chair of the CLIVAR/GEWEX Asian-Australian Monsoon Working Group.